The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-26
HOW SHALL WE B0OM2|
INDUCEMENTS TO NEW CONCERNS
And how to get Them Discussed Mt nm In.
tcre.ting Meeting Held at tho Public
building Last f;vcning-The Electric
Light Matter to Come up In Court.

Yesterdsytanother call for a Joint meet.
Ing OF the Board Of Gus Trustees and the
Council Committee on Llgita was made
and this time with better success than on
the day before, for last evening a quorum
Of both bodiee managed to gettogsther in
The Office oiihe Trustees. There we're pres.
ent President seeley and Mr.. Lewis, Of
the Board, :and Messrs. Delbrugge,
stcger, Maxwell, Forrell and Prayer, Of
the committee, and Solicitor G. D. Cald.
well. Mr.. Dslbrugge was made chair.
man Of the joint meeting and Secretary
He'll, OF tho Board, acted as clerk.
The meeting was held for the purpose
OF discussing and determining what legal
steps to take against the Wheeling E!ec.
ttical Company, Council having referred
the matter to this joint body at tho same
time that 1t instructed the Board OF Pub
lic Works not 10 grant any further per-
mission to tho company to erect poles.
Colonel Caldwell explained how he
I had been asked for his opinion as to the
legality OF the c%ompany's action by the
Trustees, and then proceeded to tell in
what respects the company, in his opin.
ion, had violated the city's ordinances rs
he set forth in his written opinion, the
main points Of which have been given.
He doubted whether the claim that the
present company was the same as the one
10 which certain privileges We're given BY
Council in 1882, would hold; he thought
the present company an entirely different
one however, II legal test was made, the
booka and papers Of the present concern
would demonstrate the real condition OIL
things, when produced in court. Grant,
ed that the present company had the
right to proceed under the old ordinance,
It's poles were not neat and Symmetrical
and were not painted in accordance with
the provisions OF the ordinance, aud the
company had further violated the city't
%ordinsnces by digging in the streets with,
out proper authority.
There WAS quite a general discussion,
some members expressing m aversion tc
causing the company ANY undue AMI
heavy expense, and at the same time no,
desiring to impair the usefulness and
revenues ofthsga a works. There was fur
Their discussion as to what plan It would be
best to pursue in instituting legal proceed.
ings. Finally the following resolution
offered by Mr.. Seeley, was adopted:
Resolrtd, That the City Solicitor be and
hereby ia instructed to institute legal pro.
ceedings In the name Of the city against
the Wheeling Electrical Company and its
officers, agents and servants and each OF
them for violation Of the city ordinances,
as to digging into and obatructing the
streets, or IS to either Of said subjects.
The matter will be brought up in Police
Court early next week by the Solicitor.
Whatever may be the decision there, an
appeal will DO taken to the Circuit Court
and a full hearing Of the matter had. It
looks very much as though a lengthy liti-
CATION was being started. The Electrical
Company claim to have everything in the
way Of permits from the Board Of Public
Works, transfers, e!c-, in a correct form,
and are strongly Of the opinion that the
city eau make no case sgainst them.